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The coalition air strikes led by Saudi Arabia with U.S. assistance continued on April 12 with no indication a diplomatic settlement was near.

“How can Iran call for us to stop the fighting in Yemen?” Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said at a news conference in Riyadh with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.

“We came to Yemen to help the legitimate authority, and Iran is not in charge of Yemen.”

Meanwhile exiled Yemen President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who fled to Riyadh, let it be known that Yemen might sever diplomatic relations with Iran.

“Yemen’s presidency is considering cutting diplomatic ties with Iran after it has proven that Tehran is providing assistance to the Houthi rebels, including logistical support,” a source said in a report published on April 12 in the Saudi backed London-based daily Asharq al-Awsat.

The source also said pro-regime Iran students shattered windows at the country’s embassy in Tehran, entered the building and destroyed pictures of Yemen’s president.

Air strikes Sunday hit a military camp in Taiz, Yemen and killed at least eight, according to a medical source.

Saudi officials are concerned about its border with Yemen across which artillery fire has been exchanged.

“Things along the border are safe and secure. Our soldiers’ morale is high and they are performing their duties to a high level,” a Saudi commander Gen. Ahmed Al-Ghamdi told Asharq al-Awsat.

But the Saudis have considered evacuating 96 villages near its border with Yemen in advance of possible Houthi attacks, the Saudi Gazette reported.

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